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THOUGHTS: Sally Beauchamp
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Jerry Friedman replies to Matthew Roth:
I'll agree that Salter's story of Sally Beauchamp is
closer to the MPD theories of /Pale Fire/ than anything
we've seen yet, since it has personalities fighting for
control. There still seems to be a very big step--one
personality claiming to be a real neighbor, recounting
conversations with the other two, knocking over garbage
cans, and so forth. So I wouldn't say "roughly similar".
You and I seem to be seeing different similarities and
similar differences.
I can't find the evidence that Monsieur Beauchamp is
Oleg's tutor. He certainly could be, but he could be
Prince Charles's French tutor or wrestling coach or
something. Unless I'm missing a clue.
If the NOJ had come out, I'd ask whether you mean
Kinbote takes control at a gunshot in his imagination,
not, as I first thought you meant, a fictionally real
gunshot.
Jerry Friedman
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I'll agree that Salter's story of Sally Beauchamp is
closer to the MPD theories of /Pale Fire/ than anything
we've seen yet, since it has personalities fighting for
control. There still seems to be a very big step--one
personality claiming to be a real neighbor, recounting
conversations with the other two, knocking over garbage
cans, and so forth. So I wouldn't say "roughly similar".
You and I seem to be seeing different similarities and
similar differences.
I can't find the evidence that Monsieur Beauchamp is
Oleg's tutor. He certainly could be, but he could be
Prince Charles's French tutor or wrestling coach or
something. Unless I'm missing a clue.
If the NOJ had come out, I'd ask whether you mean
Kinbote takes control at a gunshot in his imagination,
not, as I first thought you meant, a fictionally real
gunshot.
Jerry Friedman
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